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  Pes Land, it’s a continent full of majesty and sorrow, from the ancient time to the present, it’s a fighting field of Deities and Demons.

  On the north of the continent, there’s a huge island named “Heaven”, it’s where the Deities live. The Demons created a living place on the south of the continent for themselves, it’s called “Hell”, and it’s a huge island as well.

  The Deities and the Demons opposite north and south, the fighting between them never stop. The peoples living in between are forced to split into two camps, they have to have a worship between the Deities and Demons, in order to ensure that they would have the protection.

  The “Spia” Empire where the protagonist lives in, worships the God of The brightness, most of the residents are human beings. But the Dark Moon city where the protagonist live in has the continuous mountains called “Dark Forests” and vast deserts called “Death Sea”, there are a lot of alien races living in these two places. Although they are also in the territory of Spia, the folk custom in these two places is very intrepid. Even the public security is very bad around there, there are riots over there almost every year.

  “Sir Vassel Cada, could you please ask for somebody else? I can not do anything to help the studies of your third childe.”

  “But, sir, how come you would say like that? Kone doesn’t respect you?”

  “No, it is not the case. Kone is very polite to me. But his thought is just too ridiculous, I just can’t accept his marvelous and bizarre thoughts. Oh, talk about this, oh, my heart…”

  “Well, please calm down, Mr. Zack.” Vassel Cada thinks it over, “then you don’t have to teach Kone, what do you think about Lef and Sefta?”

  “Your first and second childes? Their skills in fighting and magic are all very outstanding.” once speaking of Lef and Sefta, everything has turned bright before the instructor Zack.

  “Then, can you please keep doing me a favor, please teach Lef and Sefta well for me, all right?”

  “Can I? Can I be the first teacher of these two children?”

  “Of course you can. You are the most outstanding instructor in the Dark Moon City.”

  “But at present these days, the knowledge is not taken seriously by most people.” thought of his own specialty, the eyes of instructor Zack gets dim, “now people just have magic and swords in their hearts.”

  “Don’t take it to your heart, grand secretary. Am I a civil viceroy as well?” Vassel Cada pats on the shoulder of the instructor with a smile, “even though they are pretty good on magic and fighting, as a need to inherit noble title to go to the battlefield warrior, those things are far from enough for them.”

  “Since you insist, I promise you. Sir Viceroy, I will try my best to teach your children all I know.” the instructor bows to Vassel Cada, “but can you please tell your third childe not to say those words again, it’s desperately serious for the people in the Temple to hear that.”

  Vassel Cada is frightened by Zack’s words, “him? What did he say this time again?”

  “You sir should just ask him by yourself, I’m going now.”

  Watching the instructor sighs and walks out the hall, the Viceroy can’t help himself sinking into the deep torment. This Kone, he makes all kinds of troubles since he was born.

  At first, it’s kind of no big deal, he just only won’t cry, he just only doesn’t have magic energy.

  But, compared with what later happened on him, these things are really unworthy of being mentioned.

  First, he has the black hair that nobody have ever seen before, it makes everyone in the Empire all know the third childe of the Dark Moon City’s viceroy.

  It even startled Your Majesty emperor, he sent the lead brightness priest from the Temple to check it out at the same night.

  When the lead priest puts the saint fruit and black bug*1 which stand for brightness and darkness in front of Kone, Kone was still not knowing talking yet. Not waited for the lead priest to release the distinguishing magic, that boy had already grabbed the saint fruit and ate it, and then he treaded and killed the black bug.

  It’s fortunately that the lead priest didn’t find any darkness inclination in his body, otherwise, not up to hundred days old, Kone would have been tightened up to a pole and burned to death on the square…

  It’s not that easy when he grows up a little bit, when it’s the age for learning. But the six years old little bastard doesn’t want to study any fighting skills for some reasons, no matter how they threaten him.

  Let him learn the magic? He doesn’t have any magic fluctuation in his body at all.

  They have no other alternatives, but let Kone to learn other knowledge, they hope that Kone can be a civil official as his father when he grows up.

  But nobody knows what’s on his little mind from morning till night, he learns nothing but the geography.

  All the teachers were scared away by him. Today the instructor Zack is already the ninth teacher who is scared away.

  “Ah…This boy…” Vassel Cada also heaved a sigh deeply.

  “My dear, what happened?” his wife Kathleen comes and walks to him in light steps. “why you’re sighing again?”

  “It’s still your dear baby’s problem, today he scares another instructor away again!”

  “Ha ha! How many are there so far?”

  “You’re still laughing…This is the ninth one now.” Vassel Cada twists his face that almost can drops some water down, “Zack is the last instructor I can hire in the Dark Moon City.”

  “You don’t need to worry too much, Kone maybe is a little bit strange, but, he is still very well-behaved. Look, this is what he made for you.” Kathleen hands her husband a blue waist belt which has the silver decorative pattern on.

  It seems very obviously that it takes whoever a lot of time and energy to make this belt, the whole waist belt is all handmade, the silver silk threads string together as a lifelike phoenix on the sky blue base.

  Looking at the waist belt in his hands, Vassel Cada feels that his heart is full of softly fragrant warmth. But he is still somewhat helpless to shake his head.

  “Kathleen, you don’t want this child just knit something like this for us when he grows up, right? Yes, Kone is really kindhearted. But this is a turbulent age. It’s very dangerous for the people who don’t have good ability.”

  “So what can we do to help?” Kathleen begins somewhat worry.

  “Where’s Kone?”

  “He went out to play, he may not be back until tonight.”

  “When he comes back, we need to spend some time to talk to him. Oh, right, I am going to the Saint Capital in a few days. What do you want me to buy for you? I will bring it back for you.”

  “I don’t lack anything. You’re going to visit Turnasi and Webber, right? Please say hello to Belltina there for me as well.”

  “I will, I also don’t know how those guys are now?”

  ……

  I am just a six years old kid, I am so happy! I don’t need to go to those hideous messy classes today. Those having long beard and wearing long gown old grand dads teach you those senseless things every single day. Father says those are all the knowledge, but why do I feel that is not right?

  Just like the instructor Zack today, he said that the continent under our feet is flat like a pan, but I don’t think that it‘s like what he said. If the continent is flat, why do I always see the sails first when I see the ships coming to us at the dork? It obviously tells that the continent is round. But when I spoke out what I think loudly, the instructor Zack was almost shocked to death. I don’t understand, I really don’t mean to scare him. Anyway, I have time to come out to play once again like this.

  Oh! You still don’t know who I am? Let me tell you, my name is Kone Cada. If you become my friend, you can just call me Kone.

  I am a kid who doesn’t have any magic power. I don’t have any magic power at all. In this place which called “Pes Land”, it’s unimaginable that someone totally doesn’t hav
e any magic power. That’s because everyone will have it more or less.

  I also don’t know why this will happen. Anyhow, my mom says that I don’t have any of it since I was born. Hence, I can’t use any magic. But my father still hires people to teach me a lot of general knowledge about magic. I just don’t know what it is used for.

  Oh, right, there’s one more thing. I! Kone Cada, very… extremely hate… weapons! No matter what kind of weapon, once I hold those things which can bring people pains and deaths, I will have the kind of extremely disgusted emotion.

  In the influence of the kind of emotion, I will throw up, I will cry and scream loudly, and then I will throw them away as far as I can. In such circumstance, my fighting skills of course will not make any further efforts.

  Although I am such a child like this, but everyone still likes me very much, that’s because I always like to help people. I have a lot of friends over here, they watch me growing up. I also like them very much.

  “Uncle, how much do you sell for your fruit?”

  “Oh, it’s Kone. No charge. Just take one and see how do you like it.”

  “Then I will knit you a hair knot*2 and bring it to you next time.”

  ……

  “Big sis, how do you play this thing?”

  “Do you like it, Kone? Let sis give you one to play.”

  “I can’t do that, sis. My mom says that I can’t take other people’s things for free, let me exchange this tri-color flower sprout with you.”

  ……

  “Granny, can I take a look at your book?”

  “Of course you can, you can give it back to me after you finish reading it.”

  “Thank you, granny. I will give it back to you a few days later.”

  I receive the book from the granny, I can see the book named on the cover. So, it must be a book about history. It’s not the kind of book that I like. What should I do? I have already borrowed it from the granny. It I return it back to her right now, maybe she would be not happy. I can just keep the book for a couple more days, and then return it back to her.

  ……Coo-Coo……

  Hmm, what’s the noise? I look up at the sky which is becoming dark, oh…It’s almost the time for dinner! I need to go home to have my dinner…Quick, quick, quick! Hurry up! I have something else to do after the dinner…

  (Note*1: The identity magic of the Temple. Put the saint fruit for brightness and the black bug for darkness in front of the one who is being tested, the priest releases the magic. If the one who is being tested inclines to the brightness, the black bug will climb away from him. If the one who is being tested inclines to the darkness, the white saint fruit will turn into black. If the one identified by the Deity Temple has the darkness inclination, he will be punished with the death by fire. If the one identified by the Demon Temple has the brightness inclination, he will be stoned to death.)

  (Note*2: The human residents live on Pes Land, no matter male or female, all have long hair. The hair knot is used to tie the hair.)